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houseoftech
I'm unable to send email to local domain that has a remote mail server, from accounts on my server. Email from anywhere else to this domain work fine and all other local accounts that have remote mail servers are also functioning.

domain: foxfiresoftware.com
remote mx server: 66.83.179.35

A DNS Zone is set up locally, although DNS services are being provided by GoDaddy.

root@s1 [~]# exim -bt info@foxfiresoftware.com
info@foxfiresoftware.com is undeliverable: The mail server could not deliver mail to info@foxfiresoftware.com. The account or domain may not exist, they may be blacklisted, or missing the proper dns entries.

The domain is not in /etc/localdomains. It IS in /etc/remotedomains.

The MX record does resolve from the server, but it can't be pinged.

What else can I check?

-Corie
houseoftech
Problem resolved.

I updated the MX record to point to mail.foxfiresoftware.com. instead of the IP address. I guess GoDaddy's DNS tool automatically added a dot at the end of the IP. Email was working fine for their SMTP server, so I guess it's only Exim that has an issue with that dot.

-Corie
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